What impressed me most about San Carlos was not the towering chimneys that smoked into the clouds, but the quaint inns that lined the streets of Midtown and Downtown.This bustling street seems to be an elegant green scarf, and those small inns are the warm embroidery on the scarf.The little hotel we stayed in Ciudad San Carlos was on the bustling street of the 10th arrondissement of Midtown, it was quietly crowded between a magic potion shop and a grocery store, it was not at all noticeable, and its façade was extremely narrow, and as soon as we entered the registration desk, there was a blonde man standing in front of the stage, although he could already see that we were all nobles, but still standing straight in front of the registration desk, without any courteous gesture, he said to us with a smile and no humility: "Welcome, Wizards of the Magior. ”I stood in front of the registration desk and asked him, "Are there any cleaner rooms?"
I want to be quieter, preferably on the top floor, you know, we don't like to be disturbed by strangers. ”"Of course, I have exactly what you need here, allow me to show you around, maybe you'll like it."
The blonde foreman said.Subsequently, he recommended us a room with an attic in the hostel.This is a small hotel, due to the limited space, this hotel only has a very small spiral staircase, the staircase handrail is made of walnut wood, the handrail has been polished very smooth, some places even exposed transparent primer, the fine wood texture makes this staircase more years of precipitation, the staircase is covered with a red carpet, each step is quite high, up three floors, Mrs.
Arya turned a little dizzy, only to the top of the hotel, she probably has never lived in such a small hotel, her eyes are full of novelty.The hallways of the hotel are also narrow, but there is always a smell of coffee, and the red carpet and golden lights give it a warm feeling.There are some small paintings hanging on the wall, one of them is the work of a certain master, it is a magic parchment that has become dark yellow, the magic pattern circle on it is slightly blurred, the strange magic rune is something I have never seen before, there is a groove in the center of the circle, the magic crystal fragment inside has disappeared, this magic rune painting is inlaid in a mahogany frame, hanging on the wall with the oil paintings of those art masters, like a masterpiece of abstract masters.Later, I saw it at the Centre Pompidou.Each room here has a chic little attic, with little space inside, and when you open the floor-to-ceiling windows of the attic, there is a small balcony outside, and the wooden trough on the balcony is raised with ants and cauliflowers, which are very bright.There is a chaise longue made of wire on the balcony, lying on it, looking at the blue sky and white clouds, quietly listening to the hustle and bustle of the street, as if everything is far away from us, the southeast monsoon brings the humid air of the endless sea, and it seems that you can still feel the smell of the sea in the wind, if you can lie quietly on the chaise longue and sleep beautifully one afternoon, it is really a pleasure.Lady Arya and Lady Sha are curious about this kind of small inn, all the big castles in the world must have many similarities, and only in these seemingly inconspicuous small inns can you feel a different style, which is the owner's unique taste and his interpretation of the meaning of the word home.Warmth, romance and mystery are the unique features of this small hotel.It seemed that Moraya and Sophie were also very satisfied, so we chose to stay here.The gentlemen looked delighted, and said to me cheerfully: It is an honor for him and this inn to have a noble magician nobleman in his little inn.It reminded me of Captain Mackintosh, who introduced us to the hotel, and when I said I was going to wait for a friend here, the meticulously dressed foreman kindly told us that we could give him his name and he would take care of the reception.And we can take advantage of this free time to visit the city of San Carlos, a city with hundreds of years of industrialization, there are still many places worth visiting, such as the San Carlos Grand Opera, Victory Square, the bustling magic charm metal plate shopping street and so on.Presumably Captain Mackintosh was a regular here, and I told the foreman his name, and the foreman was surprised and said, "So you are friends with Captain Mackintosh!"
”I asked him where I could rent a horse-drawn carriage, and if I walked through the city, it would take me a whole day.He smiled and told me that renting a carriage was far worse than taking the public carriage at the corner of the street, and that it only took ten copper plates, and the coachman would pull me around the city, and of course I had to sit in the carriage all the time, and if I got off the carriage and got on another new carriage, I would have to pay an additional fee, and these carriages would not stop where they were.Several of us agreed to stay here, the quilt in the room was clean, there was a smell of freshly washed soap and the smell of sunshine.Not long after dinner, we went back to our rooms to rest, and we each chose a room, I don't know whether it was intentional or not, my room and Lady Arya were the farthest away, my room was in the innermost part of the corridor, and Lady Arya's room was next to the staircase.The foreman also went out of his way to tell us that hot water would be provided for guests in the evening, and that if you needed to wash your clothes, you would have to pay for it extra.I sat on a chaise longue on the small balcony of Moraya's room, my eyes closed and I felt the cool breeze of the night, Moraya sat on the carpet next to me, her head resting on my lower abdomen, holding a magic book, and on the small coffee table beside me there was a lamp inlaid with a moonstone, and the light stretched our shadows very long.The extravagant magic item of the moonstone table lamp, of course, is not prepared by the hotel, it is Ya's own personal belongings, Ya's life has always been very quality, and it seems that it has been a long time since we have spent a beautiful night together so leisurely.When she was in El City, she occasionally took turns guarding the nights of El City, and as a wood mage, she had the ability to communicate with trees.And I am very busy, almost every day there are a large number of magic scrolls to draw, always like to lock myself in the attic room, draw those boring magic scrolls, although busy, in the past three years, I have drawn the number of magic scrolls has been more than 10,000, drawing these magic scrolls laid a solid foundation for me to draw magic rune metal plates.Of course, I have my own blacksmith shop in El City, and I also make some extremely simple magic runes and metal plates, such as fire gathering, water condensation, light body art, etc., these rudimentary magic runes, I can still control them with a magic carving pen.We don't usually cross paths much, except for the occasional lunch together, or the talisman mentor Tobiin leaves me in the lab building to help him draw some magical energy scrolls, and in the evening, I sneak into her dorm room and sit for a while before going home.But there weren't many such opportunities, and we spent a little longer together only in the winter when we hunted barbarian slaves.I'm half-asleep and half-awake, feeling the magic elements in the body nodes slowly flowing in the body, these magic elements will follow a new route in the body, compared to the previous me, now when I cast the water magic, I feel more smooth, probably due to the influence of the water magic amplification circle in the body, the ice shield seems to be more solid.Sister Guoguo's spirit of the water elemental leaned against the railing of the balcony, she had a slight mouth, swallowing the water element free in the night sky, naughty like a child of a few years old, but her pale blue translucent body was what she used to be.The last thing I want to see finally happens, Sister Guoguo, who has now turned into a water elemental spirit, is growing up naturally, and she is relying on her incomparable affinity for the water elemental nature, gradually allowing her to explore the structure of the water system amplification array.In her naked and transparent body, a water-based amplification array pattern identical to mine emerged.As the spirit of the water element, Sister Guoguo, if she successfully opens her spiritual wisdom and extinguishes the last bit of memory seeds in her original soul, this is what Mentor Heidi and I have been worried about, and now there are obvious signs, so I will rush to the imperial capital so urgently.But then again, now that I'm in the realm where body and magic merge with each other, I've unwittingly pushed open a crack in the door, as if I could peek into something inside.For example, the water amplification circle I have now, it seems that this magic circle is running in my body day and night, so each of my water magic will be slightly more powerful than the water magic of the same level of magician, which is some hidden advantage.I think that one day, maybe one day, I will realize the true meaning of time stagnation or magic catalysis, and these two powerful magic circles will be completely integrated into the meridians in my body, and then the power I have will be even higher, oh no, maybe all of a sudden my strength will increase by leaps and bounds.It was probably after some fierce battles that my understanding of magic would I have some insight and growth.Ya reached out and picked up a strawberry from the plate on the coffee table and put it in her mouth, hesitated for a moment, and then said to me seriously: "Jijia, I want to go out for a walk!"
”I pushed her head away, sat up from the recliner, stood on the edge of the balcony and poked my head out to look at the bustling street scene, and then said to her: "It's so late, where are you going, flying for days in a row, and you haven't meditated properly, your mental strength can bear it?"
”Ya gave me a very dissatisfied look, threw the magic book aside, and stood side by side with me on the balcony, she leaned down, one elbow supported the balcony, the palm of her hand supported her chin, inadvertently, revealing the graceful and slender curves of her back, Ya had just finished taking a shower, her hair was still a little wet, she was wearing a low-cut V-neck cotton pajamas, when she leaned over, in the dim night, the collar was empty, and the plump pepper milk showed a clear outline."
I'm not talking about this, I mean that after accompanying you to the imperial capital, I want to go outside and see the mountains and the sea over there!"
Ya shook her wet hair and said to me."
Okay!"
I didn't expect this to be what Ya said, so I paused, thinking that I had no reason to keep her after all, a wood-based mage like her who longed for the law of the jungle, always wanted to see the rainforest in the south, the Black Forest in the north, and the burnt forest west of the dwarven realm.I thought for a moment and said, "After I graduate, I also plan to travel to this continent and explore those mysterious and unknown things, maybe I will go to Etia for a walk." ”Ya suddenly turned her head, stared into my eyes, and asked me seriously, "You're going to miss me, right?"
”Without thinking, I said, "Of course, don't forget to write to me when the time comes, I'll always know where you've flown to!"
”It reminded me of Kig, and I wrote a few letters to the address she left for me, but they were all gone, and I thought perhaps she had returned to her native kingdom of Aetia.I pulled my thoughts back and whispered to Ya, "I have to find you as quickly as I can when I miss you." ”My voice was a little bit unsteady and out of tune because of the slight mood swings.Ya puffed out laughing, pursed her lips slightly, and said: "Who is rare, maybe I can find a new love, one better than you, but if you can't meet me, when I come back, you will be responsible for marrying me!"
”We watched quietly at the dimly lit city in the distance, the colors of the night obscuring the big ugly chimneys, and the starry lights of San Carlos showed the prosperity of the city.The craftsmen and slaves who came out of the factories and workshops gathered into a stream of people, and at once the streets and alleys of the lower city were filled with delicious food, and the shops on both sides of the streets were putting delicious food outside, and it was a scene of prosperity.After a long time.I said to Ya, "You'll be back, won't you?"
”Ya stubbornly said, "I didn't say that," and soon she shrugged her shoulders and laughed non-stop, and she suddenly became very happy, and said to me very proudly: "I knew you still cared about me!"
I knew that "on the matter of Lady Arya, Ya wants to express her displeasure to me, although on the surface, she and Lady Alia get along very well, but Ya does not like this rather aristocratic woman very much, she seems elegant and with a languid atmosphere, she will show charm and charm in front of me, standing in front of everyone and suddenly looking dignified and decent, that aristocratic atmosphere makes Lady Alia always the focus of several people.The next morning, Ya organized a group of women to travel around the city of San Carlos, but left me alone in the hotel, in the name of giving me a good rest, and besides, it was not convenient for some women to go to the places where the men followed.But I didn't expect that this punishment would last until Ruca arrived safely in San Carlos.The next afternoon, our group boarded the airship to the imperial capital and continued our trip.And I had a strange magic scroll in my bag at this time, which was the magic parchment that had become a little blurred in the frame on the wall of the corridor on the top floor of the hotel where we lived, and on that parchment was drawn a magic circle that I had never seen before, so I went to the innkeeper and bought the old-looking scroll for nine gold coins for the price of a work of art.In the past few days, I have been shuttling alone through the bustling shopping streets of San Carlos City, and I have also bought some blank magic rune metal plates with fine workmanship, probably because of the mature processing technology here, the price of magic rune metal plates here is cheaper than the magic rune metal plates made in my own small blacksmith shop in El City, so that I couldn't hold back, bought a dozen metal plates at once, threw them into the magic belt and carried them on my body, until the magic belt could not hold anything, I stopped.Carrying a heavy backpack and boarding the airship, we waved goodbye to the city of San Carlos and arrived at the imperial capital.